Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-05-25
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HoTxs AND cER2moa.
A Dstroit barber has offered 9 fiekes
good for 100 ahaEea 10 che member Of
NE Detroit team making the Arsi hcne
run on the home Rrounda.
Manager Waikins says thas the De-
troits cleared e110O on the gpFinQ trfr.
~ an intervlew be said that TIE salary
liat amounted 10 83s GOO.
The wheeling Cabs green stockings
nave olFeady poisoned the foot Of one
o. ~ players, and be viii be laid up for
two weeks. Is costa meney 90 Be pie
tureaqne.
Nearly al the most notable League
eaptalnar-Aneon,W Ward, Hani0D, Kelly
and IFWfn--liks the nsw rules ard
strongly edvocste fair trial for them.
Most patent friends are thsse.
A PitisburR tailor will present 70 the
member Of the hone team making The
best batting average of the season .
- suit OF Overcast and the same for
she best fielding average for tue sea son.
II takes 1000 men, 500 on saeh.sias, 70
play college ball game. Nine Of each
go play ball. and 49l yell. Tbs yelling
10 quite - important as the PLAYING,
and the yeIisss work iust as hard.
Pred Mann won 9 diamond gold and
platinum scarf pin offered By & Cleve-
land gentleman for the best general
DlsyinR Of member Of Ne Cleveland
team n the 6Fst game against Cineinna-
q at Cleveland. RFed'a work was i've
bits. two stolen bases and no errors.
Weidman looks at the long string Of
The defeats Whieh have already been
piled up 20 the credit Of the Cleveland
Club and then pinehsa himself to see
whether he ia alive and really with tie
Detroiis. SIS there club IN the eoun-
try that loses every game II plays and
me net with ~" be asks hin elf
The bright Kansas City youth uho
nr0used the anger of Captain Anson, Of
the Chi0ag0a, last season, By throwine
the reflected rays Of the sun from 8
glass int the eyes Of players and spec
tat0rs from his perch on the roof of q
neighhorinR dwelling, tried bis old tao
tics sne dsy last week. bat vas speedily
squelehed.
Daring q game at PittsbuFR a lady
Who was among the spectators remark
ed With much apparent feeling: "Oh
the players all look Blike 20 me. oaly
seme OF them are little longer than
the others. Why don't the manager
make them wear q card With their name
On ii9' Lots Of men, particulars those
not gifted with "heaele eyes," dssbtleas
wish the same thing. Toe uniforms
destroy all individuality.
The Pitlsbarg ChroHiels. Telegraph
will give the PittsburR battery winning
the greatest number Of games out Of
she hrat thirty games on the home
grounds two handsome gold medals of
appropriate design and suitably en-
graved. The man who brings ia the
most Tuna Ia the same period IL also 10
receive a medal; the outfielder making
the greatest nomber Of assists in shs
hTst thirty home games vill get q ailk
hat, and the player making the greatest
number Of base hits in the thirty home
games viii receive so boz Of cigars.
The Boston boys are going for that
handsome base stealing medal offered
by the Boston Globe, and all are pad
ding. Kelly wears Chicago pad,
which is not fastened 10 his trousers.
bat plays loosely over The hips. Merrill
has made a similar one for himself.
Con Daily was not to be outdone. He
has invented sliding suit OF towels.
aad when he Ia ready TO play his knees
look as though small balloons were faa
tened over them. Unfortunately Con
didu't get this idea patented, aud some
OF the other men have copied IL. Billy
Nash and Sam Wise stuh their clothes
full Of cotton batting.
In q general conversation 90 base ball
yesterday, Geo. kieger recalled lhe
time when Fritz Pfeffer, Pete Browning
and some other players OF the Eclipse
Club, which played snly on Sundays,
were paid 30 each per game. One
Sunday, when there was an unusually
largo oFowd present (59 personsl, Brown
inR and PfeGer struck for on advance
OF 30 cents and got IL. Joe Crotty vas
the hrst salaried man. lie vas brought
here from Cincinnati and paid 50 Ger
week and given board. The next saiar.
led man was Joe Sommers, new with the
Baltimores, aud the next Ike BarkAlow.
The year the American Association was
organized FRITZ PfeifeF made demand
for 9Tb per month for the followina sea-
son. This was refused, and Manager
Ferguson. of the Troy League Club. az
forwards signed him A a salary OF 1925
per month.-L0Hisvilis Post.
correspondent sends the following
~ q specimen OF what the Bosions talk
abeut;-"They are Mckinnon q new bat
for me-" says Mike. "Whai kind OF
Wood" asks BaFdie, "chsslnut2' "No,
u will be q Nash bat" says Kelly. II
think IL Is Wise to have an extra one,
suttonly," says Johnston. "a person
Geixsin many q run by having a good
bat" "He is a Psor-man who oan't, "
says HoFnung. Il should late 90 break
my bat, although I expect 10 Daily. Il
would DO Serry-ous, no Dentnly-ipg it.n
"Well." says Stem 90 Morrill,, decide
who wins" 20 SHAW " says Wise. 10
makes them Madden blaxss % say any.
thing about IL down hers. One chap
was going Cunning after me bee Ause |
said ve could 10 them" Eyes, they are
looking fer Gore says Had. They
will think Pyle about something else
when I get this Boyle ali right" sRys
Tate; I've will AZ their Flint" "O'Ksefe
quiet until Sunday" says BaEdaok.
and then you will know who has Ben
nett. ! am going down to the third
Ward and Myers viii say good night
Bssioa Glole.
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